On the 15th, Courcelette was included in the extreme left of the Allied attack and was taken by the 2nd Canadian Division supported by tanks, with the 4th and 6th Brigades storming the outer trenches and the sugar factory, and the 5th Brigade seizing the village.

Courcelette was destroyed by German artillery after its capture and remained very close to the front line until the German retreat in the following spring.

Courcelette British Cemetery was begun in November 1916 (as Mouquet Road or Sunken Road Cemetery) and used until March 1917.  The original 74 burials are now parts of Plot I, Rows A to F.

Courcelette British Cemetery was greatly enlarged after the Armistice by the concentration of 1,882 graves, chiefly those of men who fell in 1916 around Courcelette and Pozières.

The only considerable burial grounds concentrated into this cemetery were the following:

• Mouquet Farm Cemetery, Grandcourt.  Located immediately North of the Farm, begun by the 111th Brigade, R.F.A., in October 1916, the cemetery  contained the graves of 36 soldiers. The Farm was captured by the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles on the night of the 16th-17th September, 1916, and again by the 17th Division on the 24th August, 1918
• Red Chateau Cemetery, Courcelette.  Located within the village, the cemetery contained the graves of 15 soldiers from Canada and two from the United Kingdom. It was "at the entrance to a ruined dug-out," and it was used in October-December, 1916

Courcelette British Cemetery contains a total of 1,967 graves of which 1,177 are unidentified.

Additionally there are special memorials (one of which is at the end of Plot I, Row A) are erected to five soldiers from the United Kingdom and four from Canada who are thought to be buried among them.

Courcelette British Cemetery is located southwest of the village.

Courcelette British Cemetery Fact Panel